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My wife wanted to keep our kid’s baby hair to make a calligraphy brush with. This suited me fine, since Tony’s hair was starting to turn into dreadlocks in the back (he has delicate skin, which means we have to wash his hair with soap, not shampoo, making it less slick and more prone to […]

Most kids spend their days playing with toy cars or chewing furniture. Not my kid. He’s out to revamp the whole English language. He used to babble all kinds of incoherent sounds. “Bwagoo vujuwerzl” “Melej anjorra beshuen”. For a while he spoke what we guess was French. For a while, it was Arabic. But now […]

This blog is proof. I kinda already knew this, but it was really brought home when I hung out with two friends the other day, and it was obvious that they were stiflingly bored, but trying valiantly to hide it. My wife noticed it as well, so I don’t think it’s my imagination. It makes […]

I don’t anticipate keeling over any time soon, but in case I do (that’s the nature of “untimely death”), I just wanted to pass these words on to Alex, once he’s old enough to read them: You know those photographs from when you were 11 months old? You know how bad your haircut was? That […]

Dear reader, While I assume you have seen 2001 and fully understood it’s clearly laid out plot, allow me to indulge myself with some needless recap: The Monolith, in 2001, is an alien-created evolution booster. If you recall, the movie starts out with some simians frolicking near the Big Black Block, which gives the apes/monkeys […]